History Main / DisneyAcidSequence

%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample** Toaster's clown dream is a much creepier example.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingIISimbasPride'' has the love song "Upendi".

%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample** "With You I Can Run Forever" is René Fromage's second song and comes in third as a Disney Acid Sequence.

%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* The "Yellow Submarine"-esque opening sequence in ''[[Recap/FuturamaM3BendersGame Bender's Game]]''.

%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample** A few of the musical numbers, including comic relief character Batty's introduction, and the villain Hexxus's [[VillainSong song]].

%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* The "[[Music/KatyPerry Firework]]" sequence in ''WesternAnimation/Madagascar3EuropesMostWanted''.

%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* In ''Anime/MindGame'', after [[spoiler: Nishi dies]], the remainder of the film is like this.

%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* ''WesternAnimation/ThePebbleAndThePenguin'': "Now and Forever" is a rare example of a musical animated feature outside of Disney's ''Fantasia'' applying this trope to the '''opening''' number!

%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* A couple musical numbers from the [[Creator/RankinBassProductions Rankin-Bass]] TV specials of ''WesternAnimation/TheHobbit'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheReturnOfTheKing'' certainly qualify...
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* ''WesternAnimation/RecessSchoolsOut'': The cast performing "Green Tamborine" during the credits (this movie was also a huge ShoutOut to TheSixties)

%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfsAndTheMagicFlute'' has one when Homnibus sends Johan and Peewit on a trip to "The Land of the Smurfs" via Hypnokenesis.

%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryTheMovie'': "Money Is Such a Beautiful Word", full-stop.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* Any of the animated sequences in Music/PinkFloyd's ''Music/TheWall'', where most of the second act takes place inside the protagonist's mind anyway.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* ''WesternAnimation/WatershipDown'':
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample** The single song manages to be both sad and creepy at the same time. It helps that [[Music/SimonAndGarfunkel Art Garfunkel]] sings it.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample** This may not qualify, as it may actually be happening in-universe. Fiver is psychic and may simply be able to see the Black Rabbit leading him to Hazel.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample** Another Acid Sequence occurs at the beginning - the story of Frith and how rabbits came to be. Holly's retelling of how the [[spoiler:Sandleford warren came to be destroyed]] may also count.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample** Every scene shot from the rabbits' perspective is a combination of this trope and ArtShift.

%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample** Especially "Only a Northern Song", "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and "It's All Too Much".
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample** The final scene, "It's All Too Much", is an Acid Sequence ''within'' an Acid Sequence (the rest of the movie)!
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample** Parodied in Music/TheRutles {{Mockumentary}} ''All You Need Is Cash'' with "Cheese And Onions" from the fictional album and animated film ''Yellow Submarine Sandwich''.

%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* Most of ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland''.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* The opening credits of ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'' somewhat counts as well.

%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'': Happens in the song "A Girl Worth Fighting For".

*** "Imagine You Were Friends". The art style goes from "somewhat refined even with animation errors" to "this looks like it was drawn by a four-year old".

* The whole of the {{defictionaliz|ation}}ed {{urban legend|s}} ''VideoGame/{{Polybius}}'', including the Game Over screen. As the intro screen warns, people prone to [[EpilepticFlashingLights photosensitive seizures]] should avoid the game.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheWindInTheWillows1983'', the instrumental interlude of "[[https://youtu.be/Tkv8TGkZgQI?si=dqJEeDLSlW4wOW3_?t=26s Ducks' Ditty]]" has the ducks perform a BusbyBerkeleyNumber-esque waltz while being illuminated with trippy lens flare effects.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheWindInThe Willows1983'', the instrumental interlude of "[[https://youtu.be/Tkv8TGkZgQI?si=dqJEeDLSlW4wOW3_?t=26s Ducks' Ditty]]" has the ducks perform a BusbyBerkeleyNumber-esque waltz while being illuminated with trippy lens flare effects.

%%* Creator/DrSeuss:

%%** The 1977 special ''WesternAnimation/HalloweenIsGrinchNight'' has the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeFaBvL72a8 Paraphernalia Wagon]].

* The ''WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven'' [[YetAnotherChristmasCarol Christmas Carol]] has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWbGm-P5PUY "Clean Up Your Act".]]

* The ''[[WesternAnimation/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day]]'' featurette has the "Heffalumps and Woozles" sequence where Pooh has a nightmare about them spurred by Tigger who told him that they steal honey.

%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* The "Too Good to Be True" segment from ''WesternAnimation/FunAndFancyFree'' somewhat counts.

* ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' features "Be Our Guest" ...compared to everything else on this list, it is {{downplayed|Trope}} but one can't deny the sheer craziness of what is quite possibly the most spectacular dinner show ever animated. [[WordOfGod Commentary tracks provided on the DVD]] even ''acknowledge'' that it throws logic out of the window, but the end result was WorthIt.

** [[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 In the first movie]], Olaf's song "In Summer" from is a low-key example, but it's done in a distinctly different style than the rest of the film, involves a lot of anachronisms (e.g., hats from 20th century America), and when Anna and Kristoff appear in it, they both look a little freaked out.

* The tour in ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'' has one of these for the characters: while most of the tour involves going around a wacky candy factory (like one would in a tour), the tunnel sequence is something else ''entirely'', as evidenced by the increasing discomfort of the passengers. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by Violet Beauregard who asks if the whole tunnel sequence is a "freak out".

* Several musical numbers from ''Film/The5000FingersOfDrT'' (1953) by Creator/DrSeuss but particularly the [[BusbyBerkeleyNumber Dungeon Orchestra scene]] and [[RealMenWearPink "Dress Me, Dress Me"]]. During the dance number involving the rollerskating, Siamese-bearded twins, the hero downs a swig of some "[[LampshadeHanging powerful stuff]]" beforehand.

* ''VideoGame/Psychonauts2'': Near the end of "PSI King's Sensorium", Raz [[PuttingTheBandBackTogether reunites the members of PSI King's band]] for a performance. As PSI King regains his memories of being [[spoiler: Helmut Fullbear of the Psychic Six, one of the founding members of the Psychonauts]], he sings a trippy psychadelic rock musical number called "Cosmic I (Smell The Universe)".

* In ''VideoGame/{{Spiritfarer}}'', [[spoiler:the mysterious dimension that Stella and Daria enter whenever the former plays the latter's song for her is a psychedelic world with floating platforms, some of which disappear for a few seconds. Stella has to jump on them to reach Daria before being taken back to the spirit world.]]
* ''VideoGame/StarFox'':

* ''VideoGame/ToyStory3'': Bonnie's House is this in spades. The level starts off with an evil witch flooding Bonnie's room with coffee, and just getting more ridiculous from there. [[spoiler:Haunted Bakery is arguably even more so, with evil muffins coming after you and the same witch attacking you with deadly bubbles]].

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'''s AnimatedAdaptation of ''ComicBook/EmperorJoker'' has one, courtesy of ComicBook/TheJoker in his VillainSong, "WheresTheFunInThat". [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu5QmhnRo94 It has to be seen to be believed.]] Justified, as Joker has just become a RealityWarper.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'': "Mother Knows Best" is downplayed, but too much is happening that isn't physically possible for it to be taken as ''literally'' happening like that. Like the dozens of candles that suddenly appear on the stairs (there wasn't enough time for Gothel to have put them there; also her cape litteraly goes through the candles but doesn't catch fire); the spotlight (in a time before electricity...) controlled by Gothel and how she makes projections (ruffians, poison ivy) in it; she cannot have had enough time to have painted the red "man with pointy teeth" on the floor. Note that Gothel is usually regarded NOT to be a witch (which would be the only reasonable explanation for everything to be happening exactly as shown).

* ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke: WesternAnimation/LaBalladeDesDalton'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f63mfRtB93Q a definitive Acid Sequence]], though it's caused by MushroomSamba.

The musical number in an animated musical in which the animation stops pretending to depict things that are actually happening in the world of the film and becomes a more abstract illustration of the music. This is usually a whacked-out moment of lighting and choreography, sometimes caused by hallucinations. If it is caused by a dream, see DreamBallet. If it is caused by substance use, see MushroomSamba. The Disney [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs Acid]] Sequence is not as common as it first seems -- moments only fit this trope if they are not explainable in-universe. It shares some characteristics with the BigLippedAlligatorMoment, in that it frequently has nothing to do to with the plot and the characters never mention it again, but a Big-Lipped Alligator Moment, no matter how bizarre and random, is still assumed to have actually taken place in the film's physical reality.

* The VillainRecruitmentSong "That's Motivation" in ''Film/AbsoluteBeginners'' (1986) is presented in this manner. The villain in question (played by Music/DavidBowie, who also wrote the song) is an advertising executive who sees his work as selling dreams, and he's encouraging the idealistic photographer hero to become part of his all-style, no-substance world.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'': "Mother Knows Best" is downplayed, but too much is happening that isn't physically possible for it to taken for ''literally'' happening like that. Like the dozens of candles that suddenly appear on the stairs (there wasn't enough time for Gothel to have put them there; also her cape litteraly goes through the candles but doesn't catch fire); the spotlight (in a time before electricity...) controlled by Gothel and how she makes projections (ruffians, poison ivy) in it; she cannot have had enough time to have painted the red "man with pointy teeth" on the floor. Note that Gothel is usually regarded NOT to be a witch (which would be the only reasonable explanation for everything to be happening exactly as shown).

* ''WebVideo/DontHugMeImScared'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C_HReR_McQ The very first episode]] revolves around a living sketchpad singing a song about being creative, which leads to a bizarre "creativity explosion".

* ''WebVideo/DontHugMeImScared'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C_HReR_McQ Watch the first video and draw your own conclusion.]]

* In ''VideoGame/{{Spiritfarer}}'', [[spoiler:the mysterious dimension that Stella and Daria enter whenever the former plays the latter's song for her is a psychedelic world with floating platforms, some of which temporarily disappear for a few seconds. Stella has to jump on them to reach Daria before being taken back to the spirit world.]]

* In ''VideoGame/{{Spiritfarer}}'', [[spoiler:the mysterious dimension that Stella and Daria enter when the former plays the latter's song for her the second time is a psychedelic world with floating platforms, some of which temporarily disappear for a few seconds. There are three stages where Stella has to jump on them to reach Daria before being taken back to the spirit world.]]

* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'': "Meet the Pyro" alternates between "Pyroland", a rainbow-filled SugarBowl where the enemy team are FunSize, diaper-wearing fairies, and reality, where RED Pyro singlehandedly murders the BLU team in a gruesome fashion.
* The Arceus event in ''[[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver]]'' treats you to a rather trippy montage of the creation of the universe, set to Arceus's very bizarre and dissonant theme music. This supposedly happens all over again ''every time anything ever is born.'' [[MindScrew Or something.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Rez}}'', and its spiritual sequel, ''VideoGame/ChildOfEden''.
* ''VideoGame/BeatHazard'', set to your own music.
* ''VideoGame/StarFox'':
** The warp zones in Meteo and Sector X in ''VideoGame/StarFox64''. You go through the gates (in the case of Meteo, ''[[SpectacularSpinning while spinning out of control]]''), you end up in a hallucinogenic landscape (spacescape?), and suddenly you're halfway across the Lylat System. Talk about a [[{{Pun}} "wild trip"]]...
** Likewise for [[AnotherDimension Out of This Dimension]] in [[VideoGame/StarFox1 the original]].

* One could claim the game ''VideoGame/{{Audiosurf}}'' is just an interactive Disney Acid Sequence.
* A big example of this trope is in the video game ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'', in a scene describing the creation of Hyrule. Illia and Link are in a pitch black... space. They then see 3 Dark Links by a tree on a lone random hill in said endless pitch black area. Illia then [[spoiler: grabs a knife tries to KILL LINK]] and Link then [[spoiler:kills Illia with the Master Sword.]] Link then gets creepy white eyes and joins the dark links. Then about 100 Illias fall from the sky around Link and the sequence ends. [[NightmareFuel Holy crap.]]
* The whole of the {{defictionaliz|ation}}ed {{urban legend|s}} ''VideoGame/{{Polybius}}'', including the Game Over screen. As the intro screen warns, people prone to [[EpilepticFlashingLights photosensitive seizures]] should avoid the game.
* ''VideoGame/TheJourneymanProject Turbo'' shows time travel as a sequence of drifting through rings and geometric shapes, accompanied by hard rock music and sound clips that Agent 5 already heard in the present. This is the only game in the series where this happens, though. ''VideoGame/PegasusPrime'' replaces it with a multicolored wormhole, and the 2nd and 3rd games just show flybys of the time zones you're heading to.

* ''VideoGame/AladdinCapcom'' replaces the "Friend Like Me" sequence with something that might be even trippier, featuring a cloud landscape dotted with Genie faced balloons, pots with bird wings and feet, giant Genie heads with stretched-out tongues you use as platforms, and random mini tornadoes.
* ''VisualNovel/ILoveYouColonelSanders'' has an [[https://youtu.be/Rl-ejtdBGww opening cinematic]] that's so wackily over the top and MindScrew-laden that looks like it was made while on a heaping dose of LSD.
* ''VideoGame/Haven2020'' opens with a psychedelic hand-drawn/painted [[https://youtu.be/omsNUHAguHg animation sequence]] of the protagonists.
* ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts 2}}'': Near the end of "PSI King's Sensorium", Raz [[PuttingTheBandBackTogether reunites the members of PSI King's band]] for a performance. As PSI King regains his memories of being [[spoiler: Helmut Fullbear of the Psychic Six, one of the founding members of the Psychonauts]], he sings a trippy psychadelic rock musical number called "Cosmic I (Smell The Universe)".

SubTrope of WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs. For trippy music videos that are not part of a larger and less surreal work, see SurrealMusicVideo. For an alternate take on musical scenes set to incredible visual spectacle, see BusbyBerkeleyNumber. Compare DrunkenMontage.